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The Best Smart Home Prime Day Deals 2023!

Amazon Prime Day 2023 is here on the 11th and 12th of July 2023! These are all of the best Smart Home Deals I have found for you today!

home assistant releases

Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.5!

Upgrade your smart home game with Home Assistant's latest voice features! Assistant pipelines, ESPHome smart speakers, VOIP, and more!

Smart Home Tech

The King Of Video Doorbells - Reolink Video Doorbell Review

The Reolink Video Doorbell features good image quality, person detection, PoE, motion zones, RTSP, Home Assistant integration and more!

Reviews

This Smart Home Sensor Has Insane Features! - Aqara FP2 Review

The Aqara FP2 boasts mmWave performance with zones, interference sources and fall detection, but does those advanced features come at cost?

Home Assistant

Everything New In Home Assistant 2023.4!

Home Assistant 2023.4 has new cards and UI elements for dashboards, better Android features, a Windows App and loads of template features!

Newsletter

Everything Presence One - Back In Stock!

You asked for it - the Everything Presence One is back for another wave of pre-orders! 🥳 The Everything Presence One supports a 24GHz mmWave Sensor for accurate presence detection, a powerful PIR for lightning fast responses, a temperature and humidity sensor for climate monitoring, ambient lighting sensor for smart control

Newsletter

The Everything Presence One - Available for Pre-order now!

The smart home presence sensor made specifically with Home Assistant community in mind - available now for pre-order! The Everything Presence One supports a 24GHz mmWave Sensor for accurate presence detection, a powerful PIR for lightning fast responses, a temperature and humidity sensor for climate monitoring, ambient lighting sensor for

home assistant releases

Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.10!

Home Assistant 2022.10 includes better discovery of integrations, even more Bluetooth support, dashboard features and several new integrations!

Reviews

The SwitchBot Lock Is ALMOST Perfect But...

The SwitchBot lock can be installed in minutes, is relatively affordable and can be retrofitted to a wide variety of locks, but it has one thing missing..

Reviews

Aqara Radiator Thermostat E1 Review

The Aqara Radiator Thermostat E1 is a quick and simple way to achieve individual zone controlled heating - but are they worth the price tag?

Reviews

How Did They Get This So Wrong!? - Sonoff NSPanel Pro Review

The Sonoff NSPanel Pro is the latest release in the NSPanel line-up of Smart Home Scene Switches - but can it deliver on the promise that it's pro name suggests?

Home Assistant

Everything New in Home Assistant 2022.9!

Home Assistant 2022.9 is here so let's take a look at the excellent new additions & features, including even more Bluetooth upgrades with ESPHome & Home Assistant, ZigBee backups, a brand new helper for scheduling and an overhaul on the automation UI!

Reviews

FINALLY Some Real Competition For Smart Curtains! - Aqara Curtain Driver E1 Review

Aqara has launched a new wireless solution for smart curtains with Zigbee - but how does it stack up compared to the trusty SwitchBot Curtains? Let's find out!

home assistant releases

Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.8

Home Assistant 2022.8 brings big improvements to Bluetooth, a new feature called Repairs, HomeKit upgrades and other quality of life improvements.

Newsletter

The Pilot

Welcome to our first newsletter full of Home Assistant tips and Automations to level up your smart home game!

Home Assistant

Automate Reminders For Your Bin Collection with Home Assistant

Get automated notifications reminding you to put the bins out so you never miss another collection again!

Home Assistant

Create Visual Smart Light Alerts with Home Assistant

Create smart lighting alerts that notify you visually with Home Assistant!

Home Assistant

Daily Morning Announcements With Home Assistant

Create morning announcements that play on your speakers to give you a heads-up on what's happening that day using Home Assistant!

Home Assistant

Creating Wake Up Sunrise Lights with Home Assistant

Start your day right with sunrise wake up lights using Home Assistant!

Home Assistant

Automating Washing Machine Reminders with Home Assistant

Automate reminders so you never forget to empty the washing machine again!

DIY

Transform Any Room With These DIY Smart LED Strip Lights!

Transform any room in your house with these Smart LED Strip Lights using an SK6812, ESP32 and WLED - allowing you to create your own light show!

Home Assistant

Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.6

Home Assistant 2022.6 is here - with performance improvements, Logbook changes, Energy comparisons, OAuth management and more!

Reviews

The Aqara FP1 Changes The Way We Automate Our Smart Homes

The Aqara FP1 is a millimeter wave radar sensor that can accurately and reliably detect the presence of a person in a room and can help supercharge your automations!

Home Assistant

6 New Home Assistant Input Helpers Explained!

In the recent April update of Home Assistant [https://everythingsmarthome.co.uk/everything-new-in-home-assistant-2022-4/], a bunch of new input helpers were added that allow you to work with and transform your data in even more ways than were possible before - let's take a look at each one! Video

Home Assistant

Everything New In Home Assistant 2022.4

The April update for Home Assistant has just landed, 2022.4 and this month is a big one with lots of new features including some highly requested ones that I know you are going to be excited for! This release see's the addition of the long awaited Groups